Well, Destiny and Rogue are going back to Amazon for a replacement...
Destiny's head/cape came off her body. Guess the glue didn't set?
What made them construct her this way? The neck & cape are one piece, glued to the top of the torso and upper back. Quite strange...
Also, I don’t think Rogue could fly at this point in her appearances.
Her first appearance is in Avengers Annual #10, and that's the same issue she stole Ms. Marvel's powers. So at the start of that issue she couldn't fly, but by the end she could.
Does anyone know when Rogue had the white streak in the top-center of her hair? She has it on the sides in the two X-Men cover pics I posted earlier, and I just double-checked Avengers Annual 10 and she has it on the sides there too. So if the heavy mascara is supposed to be Rogue in her evil period then they got the hair color wrong.
Also I remembered the story of Avengers Annual 10 wrong. On page 1 we start with Carol Danvers already having lost her powers, and the course of the issue fills in the story for how it happened. So Rogue already has Ms. Marvel's powers by the time we first see her in her first appearance.
I also forgot that Chris Claremont wrote Avengers Annual 10, so his story arc for Rogue to join the X-Men was probably in his mind as he wrote that story. He usually planned his major story points out well in advance while writing plots. He's famous for introducing partial story points now and building it up for months or years to some major plot twist or story reveal.
That was always one of my favorite things about Claremont's run. It really blew my mind how much planning he'd put into some things.
Also, I don’t think Rogue could fly at this point in her appearances.
Her first appearance is in Avengers Annual #10, and that's the same issue she stole Ms. Marvel's powers. So at the start of that issue she couldn't fly, but by the end she could.
Does anyone know when Rogue had the white streak in the top-center of her hair? She has it on the sides in the two X-Men cover pics I posted earlier, and I just double-checked Avengers Annual 10 and she has it on the sides there too. So if the heavy mascara is supposed to be Rogue in her evil period then they got the hair color wrong.
Also I remembered the story of Avengers Annual 10 wrong. On page 1 we start with Carol Danvers already having lost her powers, and the course of the issue fills in the story for how it happened. So Rogue already has Ms. Marvel's powers by the time we first see her in her first appearance.
I also forgot that Chris Claremont wrote Avengers Annual 10, so his story arc for Rogue to join the X-Men was probably in his mind as he wrote that story. He usually planned his major story points out well in advance while writing plots. He's famous for introducing partial story points now and building it up for months or years to some major plot twist or story reveal.
The only images I've come across of Rogue in this outfit and the white streak in the center of her hair are from the 1st Secret Wars mini series.
...which makes the fact that I'm missing Blob all the more apparent, especially after seeing Robo's comparisons. I may just have to grit my teeth and pick him up. Ugh.
I tried waiting for a sale on Blob (IIRC, the first time I ever intentionally did so with ML) and got stung. I wound up caving when he was restocked. He's probably not worth the $80 BBTS is asking, but he is very good.
When the forum crashed, I lost access to all my old "top 10 of X year" lists. Today, I went back through and recreated them. (Psychopath behavior, I know, but it was fun.) I still had the 2023 list, but I decided to re-order it. Blob snuck into last year's top 10, and last year was stacked. As an aside to an aside, 2019, 2022, and 2023 were all excellent years for action figures.
Well, Destiny and Rogue are going back to Amazon for a replacement...
Destiny's head/cape came off her body. Guess the glue didn't set?
What made them construct her this way? The neck & cape are one piece, glued to the top of the torso and upper back. Quite strange...
I was completely puzzled by it when I saw it in Robo's review. It means there's no easy way to replace the cape with soft goods, either.
But it looks great without a break in the line? And her neck still gets the most range of motion of anyone lately? I'm more concerned with how her upper torso piece is so much bigger than the lower torso - there's a noticeable gap at the cut. Wonder if it was a factory error or a pre-design for another character.
Rogue and Destiny set is out for delivery. I’m excited to finally get a villain Rogue. She’s a character who I love to hate. She made for a great villain. I always get her figures, which come out great.
I picked up Blob finally to go with them. As I’ve mentioned before, in natural strength sports, mass moves mass, so it’s amusing to get a powerful build like this in the line that isn’t shredded.
And don’t sleep on Vision from the Void wave. Vision came out so nice—colors are perfect. He finally has a strong build and proper proportions.
I got the Phoenix and Destiny sets in yesterday. I only wanted Phoenix Force and Destiny, but you know how it is these days.
Destiny is an old woman in a traffic cone, yet she immediately draws your eye. That robin's egg blue is bright and attention-grabbing. I doubt I'll ever pose her again, but it sure is nice to have her on the shelf after so long. Bring on a recolored Spiral and I'll call my Freedom Force done.
This week, I thought about picking up the old Marvel Legends or Marvel Select Phoenix Force stand to save some bucks. I'm glad I didn't. The stand--though a pain in the ass to assemble--is beautiful. It's solid and features some surprisingly nice sculpting. I love the way the feathers subtly bend in toward Phoenix. The feet are another detail they didn't need to include. I wound up putting the new-ish Dark Phoenix on the stand. Even though Magneto is one of my favorite characters, Dark Phoenix might wind up being the centerpiece in my X-Men villains display.
Simple equation, Hasbro: you keep making X-Men and I keep pulling money out of my wallet.
I got Destiny and Rogue today. It fills the Destiny requirement for the Brotherhood, both figures are pretty unremarkable to me, but it's Destiny crossed off the list. Honestly I can't think of a 2/multi pack that I've received that I was less enthusiastic about getting, even Lilandra seemed like a bigger deal to me. Thankfully I got a GI Joe Halo Jumper as well to elicit some excitement. Honestly I'm more excited overall for green Quicksilver than either of these, but I'm happy for those that wanted them so badly.
I also forgot that Chris Claremont wrote Avengers Annual 10, so his story arc for Rogue to join the X-Men was probably in his mind as he wrote that story. He usually planned his major story points out well in advance while writing plots. He's famous for introducing partial story points now and building it up for months or years to some major plot twist or story reveal.
So, the deal is this. Mystique had already debuted in the Ms. Marvel solo book that Chris Claremont was writing. Rogue was supposed to show up later in the pages of the Ms. Marvel solo title as well - with the confrontation where she fights Carol and steals her powers. Claremont had the book plotted and I believe some of the pages were even sketched if not fully drawn. But, the Ms. Marvel solo book got canceled before that story could be published.
So, when Marvel tapped Claremont to do an Avengers Annual story he decided to retrofit his storyline from his aborted Ms. Marvel run and introduce Rogue that way.
Interestingly Deathbird's first appearance is also in the pages of that Ms. Marvel title. If Claremont had been allowed to keep cooking on Carol's solo book who knows what else we would have seen - but Deathbird, Mystique and at least the plan for Rogue - all moved from the Ms. Marvel book over into Claremont's X-Men where they became entrenched.
I also forgot that Chris Claremont wrote Avengers Annual 10, so his story arc for Rogue to join the X-Men was probably in his mind as he wrote that story. He usually planned his major story points out well in advance while writing plots. He's famous for introducing partial story points now and building it up for months or years to some major plot twist or story reveal.
So, the deal is this. Mystique had already debuted in the Ms. Marvel solo book that Chris Claremont was writing. Rogue was supposed to show up later in the pages of the Ms. Marvel solo title as well - with the confrontation where she fights Carol and steals her powers. Claremont had the book plotted and I believe some of the pages were even sketched if not fully drawn. But, the Ms. Marvel solo book got canceled before that story could be published.
So, when Marvel tapped Claremont to do an Avengers Annual story he decided to retrofit his storyline from his aborted Ms. Marvel run and introduce Rogue that way.
Interestingly Deathbird's first appearance is also in the pages of that Ms. Marvel title. If Claremont had been allowed to keep cooking on Carol's solo book who knows what else we would have seen - but Deathbird, Mystique and at least the plan for Rogue - all moved from the Ms. Marvel book over into Claremont's X-Men where they became entrenched.
That explains why the events in Avengers Annual #10 seem so abrupt. I always hated the way that the fight between Rogue and Ms. Marvel happened off panel. It just seemed like a weird way to begin a story (in the middle).
This is also very similar to what Claremont had to do with Iron Fist. He and Byrne were working on the Iron Fist comic and they had set up a story over several issues where a mysterious, shadowy figure kept attacking Danny and stealing some of his power. But before the storyline could be resolved Iron Fist's solo title was cancelled. As a result Claremont and Byrne reworked the story and moved the conclusion over to Marvel Team-Up, where it turned out the mysterious stranger was a rival of Danny Rand's from Kun-Lun called The Steel Serpent. In order to work the story into the Marvel Team-Up formula Danny got an assist from Spider-Man and the Daughters of the Dragon (Colleen Wing and Misty Knight).
That explains why the events in Avengers Annual #10 seem so abrupt. I always hated the way that the fight between Rogue and Ms. Marvel happened off panel. It just seemed like a weird way to begin a story (in the middle).
This is also very similar to what Claremont had to do with Iron Fist. He and Byrne were working on the Iron Fist comic and they had set up a story over several issues where a mysterious, shadowy figure kept attacking Danny and stealing some of his power. But before the storyline could be resolved Iron Fist's solo title was cancelled. As a result Claremont and Byrne reworked the story and moved the conclusion over to Marvel Team-Up, where it turned out the mysterious stranger was a rival of Danny Rand's from Kun-Lun called The Steel Serpent. In order to work the story into the Marvel Team-Up formula Danny got an assist from Spider-Man and the Daughters of the Dragon (Colleen Wing and Misty Knight).
Exactly - Claremont actually did this a lot, Sabretooth being another example of a character he introduced in that Iron Fist book and then brought back and propelled forward in his X-Men run, or Captain Britain being a character he had introduced in Marvel UK strip and then ported into US Comics in Marvel Team Up before eventually being able to shoe horn him into X-Men continuity - along with his now very well entrenched sister - in Excalibur.
I have no reference for Destiny using a crossbow, but for those that want it they could have re-used the crossbow that MCU MoM Mordo came with. He certainly never used it.
X-Men #142
Found this on ebay. It has a blue color scheme and it’s slightly larger than I had hoped for a 1:12 weapon. It’ll do!
DC Direct Huntress came with a small crossbow; but mine is in her hand and its partially broken from a stage dive.
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